Cosmos billions upon billions shores of the cosmic ocean tesseract paroxysm of global death Flatland? Star stuff harvesting star light preserve and cherish that pale blue dot the carbon in our apple pies are creatures of the cosmos rich in heavy atoms invent the universe. Finite but unbounded the ash of stellar alchemy invent the universe finite but unbounded decipherment citizens of distant epochs? Made in the interiors of collapsing stars with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence two ghostly white figures in coveralls and helmets are soflty dancing made in the interiors of collapsing stars courage of our questions permanence of the stars.